LC; Okay Little Cutie is back in action for another awesome packed thriller!

Jay; Since when do you do thrillers?

LC; Since just now cause I wanna do them!

Sy; She's insane Jay, don't ask her questions. It will only confuse you.

Jay; I guess you got a point there buddy.

LC; Yes, yes he does. I have a favorite saying! 'Forgive your enemies, it messes with their heads!'

Jay; What does that have to do with anything?

LC; Do with what? What are you talking about?

Sy; Just back away slowly.

Disclaimer; I do not own Yugioh GX but it is still awesome despite this heinous flaw! Which I hope to soon correct by the way.

Chapter 7: Oh Brother!

Crowler growled under himself as he went over the information of several tag duelists that he was considering for the wonderful position of getting rid of that slacker nuiscance.
None of these would do. He needed a team that had been working together for years and knew each other's decks by heart. He wouldn't be taking any chances on this one!

"That slacker girl has made a mockery of me for the last time!" He swore for the tenth time, picking up another folder.
He took one look at the picture of the duelists and started laughing maniacally. It was perfect!

"The Paradox brothers! Their perfect for this assignment! It won't be long till I'm saying bon voyage to that annoying miss Blue!" He cackled.
This was followed by a sweatdrop as he started reading the file and found they even wrote in rhyme. They seemed to be pretty creative as well.

The paperwork and expenses would be well worth the end result, seeing Blue on a boat to the mainland!

Back at the Duel!

"I summon elemental hero Avian in attack mode and lay down a face down!" Jay cried, calling forth the green spandex wearing angel.

"Your go Sy!" Syrus mumbled something she couldn't hear before contemplating his cards.

'My Patroid has a higher attack level!' He noticed happily. Maybe he had a shot after all!

"You need to work on your poker face Sy! Did you get a good one?" Jay called over to him.

"I think so." He said bashfully, playing his monster.

"Patroid in attack mode, now use Siren Smasher on Jay's Avian!" He ordered.

"Not so fast buddy, I have a trap! Negate Attack!" Sy could've kicked himself for walking right into her trap.
He really should have known better.

"Syrus walked right into that one." Chummly sighed. It was going to be a long day.

"He's got a lot of work to do." Alexis agreed.

"If he plays like this at the tag duel match they'll lose." She really hoped the bluenette could get his act together.
How did he get into this school again?

Down below the two, Syrus had turned away from his opponent and was now drawing little symbols in the dirt at his feet.

"Isn't dirt just the coolest Jay?" He asked.

"Sy don't crack like an egg yet!" Jay scolded him.

"You made one mistake, big deal!" She tried to help, she really did, but she had her word cut out for her.

"Yeah, coming to Duel Academy!" Syrus cried, his hands over his head ready to start tearing out hair.

"You just forgot to use Patroid's special ability is all! You could have used it to look at my face downs once per turn." She had to salvage the situation before Syrus went back to doodling on the ground.

"You don't have to tell me I stink I already know it! I know I don't know how to play the cards right." Syrus declared angrily.

"I wasn't going to say anything like that." Jay said, slightly hurt that her friend would accuse her like that.
Where did that come from?

"I-I know. I'm sorry Jay." He mumbled mostly to himself.

"It's cool, I shouldn't have been pointing out your mistakes anyway. Right now, we're opponents and we have to act like it!" Contrary to a moment ago Jay was now rearing to get her game on.
Nothing could keep her down for long!

'He's about to get a shock too.' She though, looking at the card in her hand.

"I summon elemental hero Sparkman in attack mode!" She called out.

"Now attack Sy's Patroid!" She ordered. She watched her buddy's life points drop by 400 and hoped this would be enough to get him serious.
She hadn't seen him duel but she knew he could be a great duelist if he only let himself be one. She was determinned to bring out the duelist within him!

"Now Avian you attack Sy directly!" Sy was knocked down from the Wind Storm Blast that sent him flying.
He looked at his life meter and saw it had dropped all the way to 2600. He was a goner!

"Next I lay down one face down and call it a draw." Jay said, watching her buddy hopefully. He needed to drop the turtle act and just break out of his shell already!

"Can I crack like an egg now?" Syrus asked seriously.

"You just pummeled me on both our turns! I can't win against you!" She had been trying to inspire him to have confidence, not destroy it.
Mentally Jay sweatdropped as she tried to think of another way to get Syrus to duel with his full potential. If things kept up with the way they were now, she'd have to go home in total disgrace!

She could almost hear her father now. She really wished she had gone through with her plan of requesting a firing squad now.

"Yes you can Syrus!" Alexis yelled down at them.

"Not to sound so cliche or anything, but all you have to do is have a little confidence and believe in yourself!" She shouted. She hoped this worked.

"Duh Sy, just get up and try again! We believe you can do it, so now you have to believe you can do it!" Chummly added.

Sy looked up at his lazy roommate with a little awe. When did Chummly become such a motivational speaker?
He looked over to where Jay was waiting for him and knew he couldn't give in yet.

His friends were right, he just needed to trust in himself! He couldn't give up now! It would be the ultimate insult to Jay to hold back in a duel!
Syrus clenched his fists as he remembered why he would be dueling in the tag duel. He had to duel so that Jay wouldn't be expelled! Coming here was all she had ever wanted in life!

"They're right, I can't stop now." He told himself.

"Especially when I'm not dueling for me, but for Jay too!" He drew his card and for the first time in a long time, trusted himself to be able to win.

"The best thing to do to help Jay, will be to beat her here and now!" He declared for them all to hear.

On the cliff above the two members of the audience were surprised by the change he had undergone. It was almost like he was another person.

"Who knew you had a way with words Chummly." Alexis said sarcastically.

"Thanks, my dad gives me these motivational books all the time." He said politely.

"I wonder why." She said, an amused smirk on her face.

"I use the spell card Pot Of Greed to draw two more cards from my deck to my hand!" Syrus announced, playing the card and drawing two more.

He gasped in surprise as he saw one of the cards he'd drawn. Power bond was like Polymerization only better.
He could use to summon any fusion machine type monster he wanted. He had never actually used it though, not since that day. Not since his brother had told him he wasn't good enough to play it.

It was back in grade school and he had been dueling against this big bully who had always picked on him and called him names.
The way he had been back then was different from his personality now. Back then, he had thought himself invincible.

"Why not give in now and get your beating over with?" The snobby boy asked him.

"No way, I'm going to win this duel!" Syrus declared passionatly, drawing another card. He was pleasantly surprised when he saw it was Power Bond, the card his big brother had given him the other day.

"I'm not taking your threats lying down anymore! I'm not afraid of you and you want to know why, because I just drew the card that will let me win!" He said, flourishing the piece of plastic in his arm.
Just before he could play it though, he heard a mysterious voice call out for them to stop.

He lost his balance, falling on his butt as he watched in surprise and betrayal as his brother appeared and offered a card to the bully in exchange for his silence.

"Zane, why did you do that? I was about to win with the card you gave me!" Syrus cried, feeling his eyes begin to tear up.

"Wrong Sy, you wouldn't have won. This was the card he had face down." Zane showed him Spell Binding Circle from over his shoulder.
Syrus knew that card, and Zane knew he knew, but still he explained his mistake to him.

"This card would have rendered the monster you summoned unable to do anything and then you would have been left taking a hit to your life points at the end of the turn." He said coldly, not bothering to face his now kneeling little brother.

"You know how to use the card, but you don't know how to play it." He could only watch as Zane walked away from him then.

Back in the present Syrus was unaware of how his worried face was making his opponent worry in turn.

'He looks like he's really battling with himself over that card he drew.' Jay thought sadly, wondering why he was so hesitant to play it.

"Sy, are you alright buddy?" She finally called. She may have been slightly worried about him but this was a duel and she hated waiting for her opponents to make a move!

Syrus came out of whatever trance he'd been in and put the card in his other hand and instead took out his own Polymerization card.

"I use this spell card to fuse the Jyroid and Steamroid I have in my hand and use them to create the Steam Jyroid!" He watched as his monster appeared with all 2200 attack points.
Of course with Power Bond those points would have doubled 4400.

"Now attack Avian with Train Twister!" Sy ordered. Jay watched with a small amount of relief and excitment as Sy managed to destroy her monster.
Maybe she was finally getting through to him?

"So think we've had enough practice yet?" Syrus said, feeling much better after lowering her attack points to 2800.

As per her usual routine, what he heard next was laughter. He should have known that wouldn't be enough for Jay.
She lived off of dueling! She was a dueling freak! Sometimes he seriously wondered if she thought of anything other than dueling.

"Have I had enough? What kind of question is that?" Jay asked, in between bursts of laughter.

"Nope, right now you and me are rivals Sy!" She said, and looking down at her hand, she knew she had the cards to treat him like one.

"You know what they say, no pain no gain!" She said, holding up a spell card.

"And from where I'm standing you stand to gain a lot!" Syrus saw the card and began to pray that she wasn't going to summon who he thought she was going to summon.

"So now elemental heroes Sparkman and Clayman unite to forge elemental hero Thunder Giant!" The sky grew dark as storm clouds overturned the once bright and sunny day.
He should have known there was a reason she had been giggling like some school girl before showing him that card!

"This isn't going to be pretty." Alexis sighed, remembering her own duel against the young bruenetter below.

"It's just another monster." Chummly said cluelessly.

"Thunder Giant has the ability to automatically destroy any monster who's original attack points are lower than his on the turn he's summoned." Alexis informed him, remembered just how she had lost that time.

"Oh, then your right. This isn't going to be licious." He said, connecting the dots and doing the math.

"Now Thunder Giant destroy his Steam Jyroid!" Jay ordered her monster to charge. An acid rain seemed to fall on the monster in response, instantly making it shatter into a million bite sized pieces.

"Now use your attack!" Syrus was knocked back a few feet as the attack hit him directly, leaving him with a mere 200 life points.

"Since he was a special summon, I get to call out one more monster!" Jay informed him to his dismay.

"So come and take the stage Birstinitrix!" The red flame monster appeared, ready and awaiting orders.

"Now use your flare fire storm!" Syrus was blown back almost to the edge of the water as his points were completely wiped out by the ensueing attack.

"That's game!" Jay said, throwing out her signature pose.

"What a duel! You made some sweet moves Sy." She praised him walking over.

"It doesn't matter since I still lost." He tried to point out.

"So just try harder next time." Jay told him, before suddenly getting this pensive look on her face.

"However I'm a little curious about that card you drew earlier. You looked pretty excited but never played it." She plucked his cards out of his hand before he could protest and her eyes widened in shock when she saw the top card.

"Power Bond?" She gaped. "Why didn't you play this it would have doubled Steam Jyroid's attack points!" She took a second to think about it.

"On second thought for my own sake I'm kind of glad you didn't." She muttered, thinking of how she would have lost if he played that card.

"It doesn't matter since I'm not good enough to play it according to my brother!" Syrus snapped angrily, snatching the cards out of her hand and running away.

Jay tried to stop him but to no avail. She would have run after him but Alexis came down to speak to her.

"I just don't understand it. He has a primo card but because some dumb brother says not to he won't play it?" She just didn't get her friend's reasoning.

"What bad blood do the two have between them?" She asked, looking out across the sea.

"It might be that his brother goes to this school and is considered the top duelist." She offered.

"Top duelist?" Jay repeated.

"Yeah, Zane Truesdale, big man on campus." 'And boyfriend of my long lost sister' She added privately.

"I'm going to find him then!" Jay declared loudly. Alexis sighed and grabbed her arm before Jay could bullet past her on her way to find the mysterious student.

"That wouldn't be a good idea Jay, your good but your not that good." She tried dissuade the slifer girl from going.

"Besides you shouldn't pry, it's not any of our business." She said knowing the whole he's-better-than-you speil would probably make her that much more eager to find him.

"It's my business when my tag partner isn't dueling up to snuff cause of him!" Jay argued.

"Besides, I wanna see how I stack up!" She added excitedly, giggling. Alexis watched the girl practically vibrate with excitement.

"Alright then, in that case good luck." Alexis gave in. There was just no standing between Jay and a possible opponent after all.
If she really wanted to duel him, she would.

"Alright Zane wherever you are get your game on cause I'm coming for you!" She said, running off to find the student and challenge him to a duel.

TO THE NEXT EPISODE PLEASE!

The next day Jay could be found bright and early walking to the school's duel store to fill out a duel request form.
Since she didn't know any other way to get in contact with Sy's big brother, she would have to turn in one of these forms.

Professor Crowler had left his office after finally finishing the paperwork and decided to go for a walk around the school.
He stopped in the duel store to see if any new cards had come in when he saw the bane of his existence filling out a duel request sheet.

He snatched the paper off the desk and looked it over. He was curious about who the slacker wanted to duel this time.

"Z-Zane Truesdale!" He gasped, reading the name on the sheet. That couldn't be right. No way this slacker could take on the school's top ranking duelist and Obelisk.
She was practically suicidal!

"Yeah he's Sy's big brother. I figure if I duel him it would help with his confidence issues so he could duel up to snuff for our tag match." Jay explained, her hand still outstretched hoping her teacher would return the slip of paper.

"Really so you want to duel him to prepare do you?" Crowler asked rhetorically.

"Well that's to bad because there won't be any duel!" He said evilly, ripping the paper into conffetti.
With each little tear, Jay felt a little less sure about her chances at getting that duel. Why did it seem no one wanted her to duel the guy?

In the Slifer Dorm!

Syrus was half covered by the blankets as he sat on his bed looking sadly at the card in his hand. This card was always a lot of trouble for him.
He knew that if he dueled with Jay at the tag team match, they would lose. Maybe she wouldn't hate him, he didn't think she could hate anybody, but she would be dissappointed. That was almost worse.

He could just see how he would screw up! He would make a dumb move and then their opponent would probably take control over his own monster and use it to attack her!
Then it would be all over.

Crouching on the bed now, he tried again to figure out his brother's cryptic message.

'What did he mean I knew how to use it but not how to play it?' He asked himself. It was when he still could not think of an answer that he made his decision.
He knew Jay wouldn't be able to carry them both through so he had to leave. Hopefully they would get her a more competent partner if he was gone.

Later she walked through the forest on the way back to her dorm when she saw a strange sight.

'It's either some kind of koala, or it's Chummly.' She pondered, watching the thing through a thin viel of foiliage.
When he fell to the ground she knew it was Chummly and began helping him pick up his cards that had fallen from the tree.

"Chummly, why do you have so many koalas?" She finally asked after the thirtieth one she had picked up. It was like koala were all he had in his whole deck!

"Because Koala are awesome, duh." He deadpanned.

"Do you want to have a pick up duel?" He asked innocently after gathering his entire deck.

"That's it, a pick up duel!" Jay suddenly gasped. Chummly would later swear with one hand on his deck that a little light bulb had appeared over her head and flicked on.

She got up and began running back the way she came. Determination in her eyes and a spring in her step.

"Where are you going?" Chummly called to her as he followed from behind.

"To challenge Zane to a pick up duel!" She called back, not even turning around.

"ZANE!" He tripped having lost his concentration and cool upon hearing who she wanted to challenge.

At the Obelisk Blue dorm, two boys held Jay back from entering. Being the oblivious-to-anything-not-directly-relating-to-duel-monsters girl, she didn't notice when their hands subtly copped a feel now and again in her struggle.

"Zane doesn't waste time dueling with slifer slackers!" One of them said, finally able to push her back though not feeling guilty as he was able to get a peek at her panties from her position on the ground.

"I was going to challenge him to a pick up duel! Let him decide who he will or will not duel!" She said hotly, getting up from her spot on the ground and brushing the dirt off her uniform.

"Nothing personal cutie. I'd be happy to duel you in his place though." She briefly wondered why he didn't seem to be concentrating on her face but shook it off.

"No, it has to be him." She pouted, finally leaving the dorm more depressed than she'd ever been in her life.
At least she was for the next five minutes anyway. Before she realized that the boy had been staring at her chest the entire time.

She and Chummly got back to the dorm. They went inside only to find Sy's bunk had a lumpy figure on it.
She'd been hoping her little buddy would've been able to dig himself out of his funk by now. Clearly that had not been the case.

THE END OF THE CHAPTER TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR MORE BLUE JAY!

LC; Alright, game off!

Jay; Your stopping already? Aw!

Sy; You enjoy my pain too much. I'm NOT that emo!

LC; Yes, yes you are.

Jay; She only took what was in the episode and put it into words Sy. It's pretty accurate.

LC; I never lie through my work! It's wrong and it's a horrible flaw in any piece!